Project Masam has destroyed and detonated 1,118 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices in the Bab al-Mandab district in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz. In a statement, Engineer Adib Rajab, the deputy leader of the Masam Special Task Team in Aden and the West Coast Sector, said that the destruction process which was carried out…
Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi has said that the problem of landmines in Yemen may be an old one as landmines that have been planted in Yemen during the six past wars were traditional landmines, but today Yemen is facing a new type of anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines. During a phone interview with the…
Project Masam’s Team 26 has announced the dismantling of an anti-tank minefield in the village of Hillah in the district of Hays, south of Yemen’s al-Hudeidah governorate. Engineer Sami Said said that his team removed 26 anti-tank landmines from the village of al-Hillah after receiving a report from a Yemeni civilian stating that there was…
Project Masam has destroyed 348 landmines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance in Wadi “Dhahaba”, in the district of Usaylan, west of the governorate of Shabwah in Yemen. Engineer Muntazar al-Radfani said that the destruction operation included anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines, fuses, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance randomly planted by the Houthi militia. Al-Radfani pointed out…
Project Masam’s operations room has announced that the project teams have removed 1,028 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices last week bringing the total number of mines removed since the beginning of the month to 3,435. In its statement, Project Masam said that the project teams have removed 3,523 unexploded ordnance and 780 anti-tank mines…
Project Masam has announced it has located and destroyed 378,636 explosive devices in Yemeni liberated areas. These include 5,960 anti-personnel mines, 135,144 anti-tank mines, 7,656 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 229,876 unexploded ordnance (UXO) neutralised over 42,239,661sqm of land since mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen’s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated strategic…
Project Masam held a stand at the book fair in Yemen’s Marib, and welcomed a large number of visitors. The pavilion also received official, military, and civilian leaders, who applauded the humanitarian role played by Masam in Yemen. Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Army, Sagheer bin Aziz, Deputy Governor of the Marib governorate Ali…
Project Masam’s management team has announced that the project’s demining teams have removed 1,408 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and explosive devices (IEDs) last week, bringing the total cleared since the beginning of December to 2,407. In a statement, Project Masam stated that since the beginning of the month, the project teams have removed 2,141 UXO…
Jabal Habashi District, is the most landmine contaminated area in the Taiz countryside, as large areas of the district have been turned into minefields killing and injuring hundreds of its residents. Too many tragedies have taken place in Jabal Habashi because of landmines, which have been intensively planted near civilian houses, inside their farms, on the…
Landmines planted by the Houthi militia in Yemeni villages and towns are among the biggest threats facing Yemenis’ present and future because they are invisible and camouflaged, and have been randomly planted in large quantities – making Yemen one of the most landmine contaminated countries in the world. Landmines have caused uncountable deaths and injuries…
